Joshua Töpfer
Senior Consultant at INNOQ
Niederweyer, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Töpfer is a Senior Consultant with a decade of experience building and advising on Java-based systems and developer tooling from his base in Hesse, Germany. He progressed through a dual study program into professional software engineering roles at DB Systel before joining INNOQ, where he advanced from IT Consultant to Senior Consultant. Joshua contributes to open-source developer tooling—most notably improving configuration, environment-variable support, and robustness for the popular remotemobprogramming/mob project—showing attention to developer experience and reliable error handling. He blends hands-on backend development with pragmatic consulting, helping teams translate complex requirements into maintainable solutions. Colleagues describe him as a thoughtful engineer who values testing, clear configuration semantics, and practical improvements that reduce friction for everyday workflows.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Angewandte Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS, Angewandte Informatik at Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg
Github Skills (4)
git10
configuration-management10
go10
testing9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
remotemobprogramming/mob
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Tool for smooth git handover.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 87 reviews, 74 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily focused on enhancing the `mob` tool's configuration and functionality. They added features related to project-specific configuration files, incorporating support for environment variables and user-defined settings. Their contributions included parsing and processing configuration options from both user and project-level files, as well as implementing logic for handling various configuration settings, such as timer, branch prefix and remote branch handling. Furthermore, the user improved testing and error handling within the codebase.
golanggomob-programmingcli-toolremote-mob-programming
innoq/seawatch_planner
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
⛴ Software for planning SeaWatch's rescue operations
Contributions:157 commits, 60 PRs, 157 pushes in 3 months
planningrescue
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